Published work
"The Different Sources of Intergenerational Income Mobility in High and Low Income Families"
Anders Hjorth-Trolle and Rasmus Landersø, accepted, Journal of Applied Econometrics.
"Public and Parental Investments and Children’s Skill Formation",
Miriam Gensowski, Rasmus Landersø, Dorthe Bleses, Phillip Dale, Anders Højen, and Laura Justice, forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources.
S. M. Sadegh Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, and Rasmus Landersø, 2025, Journal of Labor Economics 43(S1) , 269-301.
Paper was earlier circulated as "Maximum Impact Intergenerational Associations"
"The Making and Unmaking of Educational Opportunity: Educational Mobility in 20th Century Denmark",
Kristian B. Karlson and Rasmus Landersø, 2025, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 127(1), 178-212.
"Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents",
Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø, and Lars Højsgaard Andersen, 2024, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 16(4), 406-441.
Paper was earlier circulated as "Lowering Welfare Transfers: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Migrants and their Families"
Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø, and Lars H. Andersen, 2024, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16(2) 406-441.
Paper was earlier circulated as "Lowering Welfare Transfers: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Migrants and their Families"
"Lessons for Americans from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility",
James J. Heckman and Rasmus Landersø, 2022, Labour Economics, 77(August)
"Child's Gender, Young Fathers' Crime, and Spillover Effects of Criminal Behavior",
Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, 2021, Journal of Political Economy, 129(12), 3261-3301.
"The Effects of DNA Databases on the Deterrence and Detection of Offenders",
Anne Sofie Tegner Anker, Jennifer Doleac, and Rasmus Landersø, 2021, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 13(4), 194-225.
"Psychiatric Hospital Admission and Later Crime, Mental Health, and Labor Market Outcomes",
Rasmus Landersø and Peter Fallesen, 2021, Health Economics, 30(1), 165-179.
"Effects of School Staring Age on the Family",
Rasmus Landersø, Helena Skyt Nielsen, and Marianne Simonsen, 2020, Journal of Human Resources 55(4), 1258-1288.
"The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S.",
Rasmus Landersø and James J. Heckman, 2017, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119 (1), pp. 178-230.
"School Starting Age and the Crime Age Profile",
Rasmus Landersø, Helena Skyt Nielsen, and Marianne Simonsen, 2017, Economic Journal, Volume 127 (602), pp. 1096–1118
"Does Incarceration Length Affect Labor Market Outcomes?",
Rasmus Landersø, 2015, Journal of Law and Economics, 58 (February), pp. 205-234
"Social Arv og Offentlige Udgifter til Uddannelse",
Rasmus Landersø, 2023, Samfundsøkonomen 2023(2), pp. 64-72. (in Danish)
Working papers
"Transmission of Family Influence" (2nd round R&R Econometrica)
S. M. Sadegh Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landersø, and Rafeh Qureshi
Paper was earlier circulated as "Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence."
"Understanding the Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Mobility across Neighborhoods"
Neil Cholli, Steven N. Durlauf, Rasmus Landersø, Salvador Navarro
"Estimating Marginal Propensities to Consume from Danish Tax Data”
Christian Gillitzer, Rasmus Landersø, Peer Skov, and Jakob Søgaard
Ongoing projects
"Direct and Indirect Effects of a Housing Policy on Neighborhoods, Residential Mobility, and Inequality"
Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø, and Mikkel Mertz
"Labor Market Networks, Efficiency, and Inequality"
Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø, Muly San, and Uta Schönberg
"Educational Expansion and Sorting into Degrees"
Jesper Birkelund, Kristian B. Karlson, and Rasmus Landersø
Recent research output, comments, and opinion pieces (in Danish)
Is Copenhagen open for all? (opinion piece, Berlingske Tidende, 2025)
Focus has changed in the education reforms (opinion piece, Politiken, 2024)
There is no exodus of welfare workers from the Capital region (short analysis, 2024)
Effekten af et karakterkrav er blevet udvandet over tid (short analysis, 2024)
Øget karakterkrav på gymnasiet vil primært ramme unge fra gymnasiefremmede hjem... (short analysis, with Anders Hjorth-Trolle and Mille Bjørk, 2024)
Folkeskolen er i fare for at blive opdelt (opinion piece, 2024)
Kun få, der har forladt sygeplejefaget, vender tilbage (short analysis, 2024)
Forskningsprofessor forsøger at svare på det spørgsmål, som står centralt efter SU-forlig: Hvad vil der ske, når SUen reduceres? (comment, 2023)
Folkeskolens problemer bliver ikke løst ved at indføre fortidens greb (opinion piece, 2023)
Nye reformer vil ikke løse problemerne (opinion piece, 2023)
Vi tager fejl, hvis vi tror, at det er revnerne i velfærden, der skaber et A- og B-hold (opinion piece, 2023)
Karakterkrav skaber store forskelle i uddannelsesmuligheder (short analysis, 2023)
Antallet af uddannede lærere er faldet markant, mens der aldrig har været så mange uddannede pædagoger og sygeplejersker (short analysis, 2023)
Gini-koefficienten er et utilstrækkeligt mål for ulighed og kan afspore debatten (comment, 2022)
Den større sociale arv og det aflyste generationstyveri (comment, 2022)
Folkeskolens udfordringer hænger sammen og skal løse samtidig (opinion piece, 2022)
Retspolitik er subjektivt (opinion piece, with Lars Højsgaard Andersen, 2022)
Ulige muligheder for at få en ungdomsuddannelse kan tilskrives ulighed i færdigheder (short analysis, 2022)
Unges tilknytning til arbejdsmarkedet (short analysis, with Signe Hald Andersen, 2021)
Social baggrund afgør din uddannelse, ikke om du bor på landet eller i byen (opinion piece, with Kristian Karlson, 2021)
Det er i stigende grad studenter med relativt lave karakterer, der bliver lærere (short analysis, 2020)
Børns udvikling af sproglige færdigheder har en social slagside (short analysis, with Anders Hjorth-Trolle, 2020)
Academic presentations (selected)
EALE conference, EEA conference, Humboldt (Berlin), NBER Summer Institute, NHH (Bergen), Royal Economic Society conference, SOFI (Stockholm), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (conference), The University of Chicago, The University of Copenhagen, UCLA, University of Duisburg-Essen, Tinbergen Institute (Amsterdam), Topics in Labor Economics conference (UCL), Linné University (Växjö).
Editorial experience and refereeing
Associate editor at the Journal of Human Capital (2018-).
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Insights, Economica, Econometrica, Economics of Education Review, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, European Research Council, Health Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics.